Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ Disabling Bixby & Adding Google Assistant

4/24/2017 – There is now another working method. Instructions have been updated.

As of 4/20/2017 T-Mobile has patched this in the latest update. Still waiting for a work around.

I recently just purchasing my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S8+. One of the features I did not like was Samsung’s new service Bixby.

Bixby is an artificial intelligence system that’s designed to make device interaction easier, specifically designed to avoid the complexity of increasingly fully-featured devices. It will make its debut on the Samsung Galaxy S8 devices, but is designed to work across a range of Samsung products.

In it’s launch format on the S8, it encompasses a range of different features, Bixby Voice, Bixby Vision, Bixby Home and Bixby Reminder, for example.

On the side of Galaxy S8 & S8+ where the volume up and down buttons you now have another hard button. This is to activate the Bixby service and ask it something. I wanted to replace this button using the Google Now/Google assistant. It’s actually very easy to do; there is rumors that a patch is coming which will not allow you to do this.